We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.